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As a semifrequent player of AD Ez and Corki, I can say CDR and positioning is the best solution to being squishy.

Your Q base damage should be high enough (and you should always max it first on any Ezreal build) that you should be plenty scary early game - if that doesn't seem to be working, you can try running some Armor Pen (or maybe hybrid pen) runes to give it some extra kick.

Remember that Sheen does bonus damage equal to your base autoattack damage, so it's a good early item to pick up (I usually grab it after a phage on AD Ez), and upgrading it to a lichbane only adds damage when your AP exceeds your base AD (ie, after you get a needlessly large at least).

This is because +200 health and +20 AD is simply MASSIVE at the windmill fight.
Autoattacks at that point in the game contribute to a fairly significant portion of your DPS.
The stats that a prospectors blade gives you are about a ~20% health and damage increase.

Anyways, after that I would guess at doing Sheen > Cap > Lich, but I'm not really an Ezreal player, so take that with a grain of salt.

The problem with the lichbane + deathcap build is when you start hitting 1700+ Dominion Elo, people build defensive items and you're just tickling all those tanky DPS. One CC and you're dead, so when WW, Pantheon, Malphite, etc initiate, everyone else focuses you or whoever is the highest threat (carry). Positioning can only do so much.

The lichbane + deathcap build is great for soloing you out of Dominion Elo hell when no one builds defense and picks a bunch of squishies.

I've been experimenting with a Mpen build (abyssal scepter, haunting guise, sorc shoes, malady...then go CDR and/or more AP) but haven't had much success (sometimes it does wildly good, sometimes it's terrible...though it helps if you have teammates that peel or a bunch of CC). Now I'm thinking of a kiting build & sustain with Rylai's Crystal scepter and WoTA/Gunblade. If I don't find a way to make him mostly successful in 1700+ elo, I might as well give up and play him AD due to all those tanky DPS =(.